It’s 2019 and we still don’t have a toaster you can take in the bathtub.

Ah, another day on the internet. Time to find some people I don’t like and try to make them feel bad.

I did wonder if eventually they’d reference the famous “Get him a body bag!” line in Cobra Kai, and the way they did was pretty surprising.

I didn’t care much about the Mueller report beforehand and everything subsequent has just made me care less and less.
It became obvious right away there was nothing in there that seemed impeachable to anyone other than an extreme partisan, so it was like “Let’s move on.” Plenty more Trump awfulness coming down the pipeline.

The deal of capitalism—the deal that people like Bernie Sanders rejects—is that you can have more than you can possibly imagine—wealth and luxury people of the past couldn’t even comprehend—as long as you can put up with someone else having a lot more.

The Android Studio debugger shows the contents of a byte array in decimal. What is this? A programming language for children?

-103? What byte is -103?
I don’t think I ever in my life have dealt with a signed byte displayed in decimal. I don’t even know how to translate that to something useful.

I’m usually fine with these more modern languages that don’t give you memory access. When you’re doing trite things like describing how a GUI button behaves, they’re fine. But every now and then I have to do big boy programming with them and it is painful.

While talking about programming languages for children, I refuse to use “YES/NO” for booleans in Objective C. I’m not a baby.
Can’t razz on Objective C too much. It does give you a memcpy.

It seems to me that Joe Biden does have the best change against Trump, but 2016 left me with such a feeling that I absolutely no idea what’s going on that 2020 could end with a landslide going either way and neither result would feel that surprising.

I’ve never understood what rights gap the Equal Rights Amendment is supposed to fill.
A constitutional amendment we do need is a right to make a living. Licensing and regulation should be given the same scrutiny as restrictions on speech.

The left in this country have a huge problem with antisemitism and they absolutely do not want to have to deal with it.

That Beyond Meat seems cute, but if they can make it significantly cheaper than actual meat, then they have something. Capitalism is like 1000 times multiplier versus people purchasing something for ethical reasons.

I don’t know anything about the Prison Planet guy other than that he seemed pretty nutty so I avoided him. Then again, that describes a lot of people here so I don’t know if that means he should be deplatformed.

My view on climate change is that change is just a part of life, man. You gotta embrace change. Don’t get stuck in the old ways. Welcome the new.

States should pass a measure keeping socialist off the ballot since they’re commies, which it is illegal to be.

The left tactics to win a political battle are a bit like someone trying to win a brawl by throwing guns into the mix and then yelling, “But only people we like please use those.”
Oh yeah. I haven’t heard those numskulls bring up court packing in a while.

My next novel is coming out soon, and Ethan Nicolle (of Axe Cop fame) made the cover!
It has a katana in it which I find to be essential to good storytelling.

Here’s the full wraparound for the print version. Only regret is it’s hard to make out the name on the donut box because I thought it was pretty clever.

“What are the patient’s symptoms?”
“He got joo joo eyeballs.”
“Really? That’s rare.”
“He got monkey finger.”
“Both those things?!”
“He got walrus gumboot.”
“How is this man still alive?!”
“He got feet down below his knee.”
“Well, that’s normal.”

Bill de Blasio does have a path to victory, but it involves him surviving a virus that kills off 99% of the population.

There’s so much focus on which politician will win an election and what bill will get passed it’s like everyone forgot that the main point of politics is to have fun.

I found out from Smash Bros that the piece everyone knows as the theme to Super Mario Bros is actually called the “Ground Theme.” At least it’s not called something like “Suicide Is Painless.”

Oh man. I completely missed Cinco de Cuatro.

Why would you waste money on sunglasses when good ole squinting works nearly as well? Plus it makes you look badass like Clint Eastwood.

I’ve played enough video games to know how Game of Thrones ends: The iron throne comes alive and they have to fight it.

Palestinians? To Israel, they’re more like Enemy-estinians! #TopicalHumor

Sure, the patriarchy did get humanity from a bunch of loose tribes to an advanced prosperous civilization that landed on the moon, but if you have a better idea of how to do things, have at it.

Is Booker’s idea to license gun owners anymore constitutional than requiring a license for speech?
And what problem is he trying to solve with his expensive unconstitutional idea? A mass shooter isn’t going to go through a licensing process; he’ll just obtain one of the 400 million guns already out there like every other criminal.
Actually, every single one of Booker’s ideas seem to be just things to pester law-abiding gun owners and do absolutely nothing to stop any criminals from shooting someone.
No one seems to take the problem seriously. There are 400 millions guns out there. If someone wants a gun, they’re going to get one. Licensing, background checks, microstamping new guns won’t even have a nominal effect on criminals.
The laws that are shown to have an effect on gun crime are harsher sentences for using a gun in a crime–a law that has no effect on law abiding gun owners. Also won’t effect mass shootings, but no laws will.

I think people often confuse democracy with freedom, when in fact democracy is simply a tool that hopefully supports freedom, though 51% could vote to oppress the other 49%.

I’m starting to wonder if the analogy for democracy is refrigerator. It keeps your freedoms from spoiling right away, but doesn’t ultimately preserve them forever.

And one of the greatest aspirations of this country is protection of minority rights, and doesn’t majority rule seem like a particularly faulty way to go about that?

This may be sexist, but men who are fervently pro-abortion are about the creepiest thing imaginable.

There are countries with larger populations than the U.S., and theoretically they should be able to become richer than us. I think it’s unlikely for a country to pass the U.S. though because of one advantage no one else can match in the near future: We’re the least homogeneous.

I just realized I completely forgot who Hillary’s running mate was. That guy barely existed.
And while we’re remembering old things, remember Occupy Wall Street? Did anyone ever figure out what they wanted?
And was that whole “up twinkles” thing Occupy Wall Street supposedly did real or just something made by a brilliant satirist mocking them?

This doesn’t seem like a great time for a Netflix price raise with the much cheaper Disney+ and all its content on the horizon. With the first Netflix price raise, I didn’t think twice, but now Netflix is starting to lose value in my eyes.
Probably biggest value now is Prime Video. I watch a number of their original shows, but I only got Prime for the shipping.